Alfa Giulia rejected

Fiat-Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne has ordered Alfa’s designers to try again with the new Giulia, the 2013 replacement for the 159 sedan and wagon.

“I don’t think it’s an Alfa,” he said recently. “You could take off the badge, and it could be German.” The Giulia is the key model in Alfa’s plan to return to the US in late 2012 or early 2013 after an absence of almost 20 years, and Marchionne is worried.